What to shred, what not to shred

When it’s perfectly legal for people to go through your bins, you can bet that criminals take advantage of this and do search through rubbish for personal information to steal. With ID fraud estimated to be growing at roughly 20% a year, it is more important than ever to make sure you destroy, or even better, shred your documents.

According to the 1998 Data Protection Act, all businesses are required to shred records of personal information before disposing of them.